Access local network files with android

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I want to acces files on my LAN (on a NAS or PC) by an Android app like I can do on Windows by typing \pcname\ in the explorer. I know this is possible on Android, because there are other apps that do this (e.g. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rhmsoft.fm).

I already tried accessing the file as a local file (new File("\\pcname\")). Needless to say this did not work. I searched the web for tutorials, but every tutorial I found was using ftp, http and so on.

score 2 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '19 at 07:31

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Using java.net.URL you can use ftp urls like ftp://servername/path/to/file. To access windows share, you need to use the SMB protocol (there is similar question: How to access share folder in windows through android and read files )

edited May 23 '19 at 07:31

jelmer

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answered Jan 08 '13 at 19:12

Luigi R. Viggiano

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Thanks! I used the jar from the jcifs library (http://jcifs.samba.org/src/jcifs-1.3.17.zip) and this example http://lists.samba.org/archive/jcifs/2007-September/007465.html. At first I got aa ExceptionInInitializerError (maybe because I did run the code in the main thread for testing), which could be solved by ThreadPolicy tp = ThreadPolicy.LAX; StrictMode.setThreadPolicy(tp);. – hin Jan 08 '13 at 20:20

Access local network files with android

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